I really don't see why people seem to hate this event. I like it. The Bendis parts move really slow and could be condensed, but overall, its pretty fun, especially since it seems to be reuniting the present-day X-Men.

Plus, I like that it seems to be subverting the 'time traveller came back to stop their future' trope X-Men has done to death, since the time travellers are apparently A-holes and the future ain't half bad compared to most futures.

It's not so much hate for me, more vaguely hostile apathy. The pacing is just really slow to the point that it feels like you could just pick up every third issue and not have missed anything.

Also, the whole people come back in time to change a perfectly nice future because it didn't go the way they wanted it to thing was done in a much better paced Fantastic Four story, but that's sorta inevitable when you're working with sixty+ years of stories.

Actually, I think the pacing for the first few issues was amazing--then it just kinda slumped a bit while they were semi-explaining the future X-Men stuff. This issue definitely picked things back up, though.

The two aren't mutually exclusive as many villains do engage my sympathy at some level, the whole "one bad day" genre for example, or the "Doing dubious things in order to achieve something akin to the greater good either outright or from a particular point of view".

I dont think your supposed to feel sympathy for them, not in the way that you're describing at least. We're not supposed to hate them completely just yet though, I just want to know why they're doing this.

I still don't understand how she got the kid from Budapest to America without anyone stopping her. I know you didn't used to need a passport for babies,* but I'm fairly certain you need something to show you didn't, oh, steal it from a hospital while everyone was distracted.

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